Re: c++ calling c functions
"Abhishek Padmanabh" <abhishek.padmanabh@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Dec 5, 9:25 am, Uday Bidkar <uday.bid...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 5, 9:18 am, teju <tejaswini_ra...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
i am trying 2 merge 2 projects into one project.One project is using c
language and the other one is using c++ code.
both are working very fine independently.But now i need to merge both
and my c++ code should call c code.but when i tried to call a function
in c code externing that function in my c++ code, i am getting
unresolved external symbol error. Whatever i try its giving more and
more errrors...so is it possible to merge 2 projects?
if so how can i do that?
I guess the problem is because of c++ compiler mangling the names of
the functions. Have you declared the C functions as extern "C" in the C
++ code you are using? If not, try doing so.
Is the extern "C" needed if the code is merged and built with a C++
compiler? I don't think mangling should be an issue as long as the C-
project is also being built as C++. If there are C libraries that are
being used in the C project, it would be needed to put extern
declaration to interface with them.
A C project merged into a C++ project is same as a C++ project that
has been written with a subset of C++ (that is close to C).
It depends on how the merging is done. If he is including .c files in the
project then they will be compiled a C code and not be name mangled, and the
C++ will have to call them with the C calling convention ( extern "C" ). If
they are changed to the extention .cpp then they will be name mangled and
extern "C" won't be needed.
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